CAPTAIN'S BLOG

I liked the episode for many of the reasons stated in the post. It appears that Cryptic is at least hinting by the content release that the Krenim will be involved as the game continues. I will stop speculation after that as I never got past TOS and TNG in Star Trek storylines :-)

I imagine the next step is some time travel shenanigans, where we learn that it is complicated, have to return again to correct things, and learn we shouldn't be changing things in time!

[After we make things right with time, I assume we must do some time travel so that we can have some captains travel back and tell themselves to collect Iconian data as Delta Recruits....]

Chris

Probably the worst written episode of the entire game. It makes no sense to attack the Iconians with everything when we are waiting to build a weapon against them. Also, Iconians powering Herald tech makes no sense. There's only 12 of them and thousands of Herald ships. I'm really let down with this FE.

I thought this episode was disappointing. It put so much stuff into the episode and felt like they just needed filler. OK, so we learn that we are building a time ship and we kinda gotta interact real quick but wow, let's walk down this hall way and plan an attack! Wait, why are we attacking so soon? Idk, let's just do it. Also let's talk about the Iconians and their power. So forcing her to power the stuff drained her and killed her, wait, what!?

So worse of all, honestly what's bugging me the most. This whole Krenim time travel upcoming content. So they are working on a weapon, that when we apply what we know now, will erase from time something it hits. Any event that they caused will in turn be removed from time. So, with this knowledge, let's say we hit the Iconian home world. We wiped it out and everything they would ever do. With this event we would never have had the war in the first place and all is right? No, because most of the universe is the way it is because of the Iconians. Too much would be changed and we wouldn't have what we have now to combat them. Sure, say you shield that timeship like it was in Year of Hell, you still have massive areas effected by it just like in Year of Hell. Every action has another action and that's why time travel paradox inducing objects are the worse thing to ever shoehorn into a game, most of all a MMO. I know they've had time travel before but it's always been no issue in the game as it doesn't really effect the future. We are talking about a weapon that will change everything. Oh, not to mention, where is the Reletivity right about now? Really, shouldn't the future time police be stepping in? Hell, we know by Voyager cannon alone that the future Star Fleet is there so. Grr, time travel SUCKS!

I didn't like this episode at all. The idea of a suicide attack and sacrificing hundreds of lives to kill one iconian is fundamentally wrong and makes no sense given we were supposed to be nearing completion on a new weapon.
Some debate about this from my character would have been good, rather than being forced to agree with a glory hungry and reckless Klingon.


In addition to that the basis of that suicide run was a rehash of the Herald Sphere STF and the ground combat felt very similar to House Pegh.

I didn't enjoy this episode at all, in fact it is without doubt the worst one of the whole war.

The whole mission was nonsensical. If it were a needed distraction to buy time, it would have made sense, but that's not the case. As for episode construction and pacing, I think it worked. I certainly didn't mind the game play and the cut-scenes were entertaining. On a final note, I'm disappointed in the entire Krenim hook and the alliances consistent violation of their own standards and directives throughout the delta story arc. As we saw in Voyager "The Year of Hell", there was only a single Krenim time altering construct and it was reset out of existence by Voyager. The Krenim and their genocidal time war was an affront to everything the federation stood for and a power too dangerous to leave operational. Unfortunately, just like the Kobali grave robbers, the player is forced to cooperate with events which fundamentally violate the standards of their faction. Quite often, these stories don't even "feel" like Star Trek.

Hmm maybe i mean would find it interesting at least